Republicans Have No Plans, No Policies, Nothing... Except Sniping And Obstructionism-- Even On Torture

In the immortal words of anti-health care fanatic, Texas numbskull Michael Burgess, from the sprawling suburbs north of Dallas-Ft Worth, “Senator McCain, for all his faults, had a program a year ago. People became pretty comfortable with McCain carrying the load on that and when he wasn’t successful in November, it left a big void.” The big void Burgess was talking about was the fact that the GOP has no health care policy-- unless you consider obstructionism and saying "no" to anything that helps ordinary American working families a policy.

But he could just as well have been talking about the Republican Party's foray into the torture debate. If we've been harsh on Obama, it's because he refuses to prosecute the criminal masterminds behind the torture regime. There's little else one could expect from Rahm Emanuel; but we had a right to expect more from Barack Obama. But, according to Emanuel, Obama has decided-- illegally-- to let the torturers and those who ordered torture off scott free. Seems like a departure from the pre-election Obama or am I wrong on that? Anyway, can I get my vote back?

Not that I'd have given it to McCain, whose only point of contention with Obama is that he should have covered up the evidence, not let American citizens know what our government did in our name-- policies that even he admits-- strongly-- made us far less safe as a nation. McCain:



All 99 senators were polled by The Hill today to determine which senators were the easiest and most difficult to work with. The 4 worst were, predictably, right-wing extremists Jim Bunning (R-KY), David Vitter (R-LA), Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Jim DeMint (R-SC). One Democratic senator called them “a bunch of 4-year-olds.” Unless it's about baseball, people would rather not even talk with Bunning about anything.